Tariffs or not, people are likely going to keep eating ice cream. The Bassetts Ice Cream Co has been in business in Philadelphia since 1861. "One of the great things about ice cream, unlike a Porsche or a Ferrari, people of modest means can afford the most expensive ice cream," he told China Daily on Tuesday. Bassetts' distributor in China is Beijing Sino-American United Food Co Ltd, which also operates six ice cream shops on the mainland under the Bassetts brand. "It costs me more to ship product to Chicago that it does to ship it to China," Strange said.